Arrested during a banal road check for having telephoned while driving on a highway near Marseille, a motorist allowed the gendarmes to discover some 530 kg of cannabis resin stored in his vehicle, announced the gendarmerie.
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On March 23, at the end of the afternoon, at the junction of the A7 and A8 motorways, the gendarmes of the Salon-de-Provence motorway platoon arrested a motorist traveling towards Marseille "
using a telephone while driving
“, specifies the press release.
"
Intrigued
" by
the "suspicious attitude
" of the driver, the soldiers, who detected a smell of cannabis emanating from the passenger compartment, discovered 530 kg of cannabis resin packaged in 100-gram packets and stored in suitcases, boxes and sports bags.
“
This seizure represents a market value of more than 4 million euros
“, according to the gendarmerie.
The man was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention at the Luynes remand center in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône).